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[http://www.ukrainetrek.com] home site map contact us add a link bookmark us discussion forum Welcome! Let's trek UkraineTrek.com now! It is the best site if you want to know plenty of important information about Ukraine. Central Ukraine | Western Ukraine | Eastern Ukraine | Southern Ukraine Foreword « previous page | content | next page » Ukraine will mark its first decade of independence in the next century. The coming years will be pivotal for Ukraine's development, which will take place against the background of both major global and regional changes, and transformational and integrational processes. An important task for Ukraine today is the need to choose an optimal model of development, an adequate geopolitical strategy and a system of national security sufficient to ensure its existence as an independent sovereign state - a full-fledged subject of international relations. Ukraine 2000 and Beyond: Geopolitical Priorities and Scenarios of Development is a collective monograph prepared by the National Institute of Strategic Studies in cooperation with the National Institute of Ukrainian-Russian Relations. It constitutes an, in our view successful, attempt at a comprehensive analysis of the basic priorities of Ukraine's national security and foreign policies in the context of geopolitical realities in the contemporary world, as well as of its national interests and goals. The publication is part of the "Ukraine 2010" academic-research project, ratified by the President of Ukraine. It is aimed at the concrete resolution of urgent problems concerning Ukraine's further affirmation as a politically and economically independent, democratic, law-based country. A review of the alternatives of Ukraine's national strategy is conducted on two levels: on a global level, that is, on a level of key geopolitical contours in whose framework Ukraine's interaction with global centers of power occurs; and on a regional level, on which Ukraine's geopolitical strategy is formed in relation to individual countries and state structures. A special characteristic of the monograph is its utilization of the results of concrete sociological studies of the state and dynamics of the changes in Ukraine's foreign-policy and geopolitical orientations in the years 1997-98. A significant achievement on the part of the authors is the development of alternative scenarios for Ukraine's future for the period up to 2003, as well as the formation of strategic priorities for the future in the spheres of national security and foreign policy. In raising fundamental principal questions of national security and geopolitics, whose resolution will significantly determine Ukraine's historical and political future, the authors at the same time do not propose to the reader a specific model for the future. Rather, they outline a range of possible alternatives, the realization of which can carry both positive and negative consequences. Democratic society, which is the type of society taking shape in Ukraine today, should make its own choice. Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Volodymyr Horbulin « previous page | content | next page » top Web ukrainetrek.com CONTENTS Annotation Foreword Preface Main Conclusions and Recommendations Strategic Priorities of Ukrainian National Security and Foreign Policy for the Future (O.Honcharenko, B.Parakhonsky) I. Theoretical Backgrounds (O.Honcharenko, O.Strekal) II. Ukraine in Core Geopolitical Outlines 1. Geopolitical Priorities of the Main World Powers and Ukraine (O.Honcharenko, B.Parakhonsky) 2. The USA and the North Atlantic Community - Ukraine - the Russian Federation (B.Parakhonsky) 3. Europe - the USA - the Islamic World - Ukraine - the Russian Federation (B.Parakhonsky) 4. The Asian-Pacific Region - the USA - the Russian Federation - Ukraine (A.Honcharuk, S.Nikishenko, B.Parakhonsky) III. Regional Directions and Peculiarities of Ukraine's Geopolitical Strategy 1. The North-East Axis a) The Russian Federation (R.Zhanhozha, V.Kuzmenko) b) The Present State and Future of the CIS (B.Parakhonsky, O.Honcharenko) 2. The Euro-Atlantic Axis a) The Countries of Western Europe and the Problems of Ukraine's European Integration (O.Strekal) b) The USA and Canada (E.Lysytsyn, O.Honcharenko) c) Euro-Atlantic Structures (O.Manachynsky, A.Soboliev, O.Honcharenko) 3. Central Europe and the Baltic States (O.Strekal, O.Honcharenko) 4. The Black Sea Region a) Ukraine in the Black Sea Region (B.Parakhonsky) b) The Balkan Axis (B.Parakhonsky, V.Kuznetsov, O.Manachynsky) c) The Caucasian Region. The Formation of the GUAM System (B.Parakhonsky, V.Malarov) d) Ukraine and Turkey (B.Parakhonsky) 5. The South-East Axis a) The Middle East (B.Parakhonsky) b) Central and South Asia (B.Parakhonsky) 6. The Asian-Pacific Region (S.Nikishenko, A.Honcharuk) 7. Other Important Regions and Countries (O.Honcharenko, B.Parakhonsky) IV. Alternative Scenarios for the Future of Ukraine (O.Honcharenko) Appendix. A Sociological Study of Ukraine's Foreign Policy and Geopolitical Orientations and its National Security Policy (O.Potiekhin, O.Parakhonska) The National Institute for Strategic Studies The National Institute for Ukrainian-Russian Relations Abbreviations All Rights Reserved © 2006. TrekThemAll holding, Inc. This site is not affiliated with any government entity associated with a name similar to the site domain name. 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